The Troops at Napier

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 41, 18 February 1901, Page 3

The Troops at Napier

ORDER OF PROCESSION.

The following is a description of the debarkation of the Imperial troops at Napier, and the order of march : In a single trip the Tutanekai brought all the troops ashore, the Glasgow wharf keing kept clear to prevent any interference with their landing. The men and their officers marched to the root of the breakwater and were then formed up. A large crowd had by this time assembled on the wharf and the approaches, but thb throng was not so dense as expected, owing to the fact that the greater majority of the public had already taken up advantageous points of observation along the line of march through the town. Eventually everything was in readiness and in the following order the procession started on its march: — Advance Guard, East Coast (Gisborne) Mounteds Carriages conveying Mayor, Government Party, Borough Councillors, and Members Reception Com- , mittee. H.B. Mounted Rifles Ahuriri Mounteds Ruahine Mounteds Napier Guards Napier Rifles Hastings Rifles Waipawa Rifles Dannevirke Rifles Gisborne Rifles To Aute and local Cadets East Coast Battalion Band Staff Officers, Imperial Troops Life Guards Horse Guards . 7th Hussars 21st Lancers Royal Horse Artillery Royal Field Artillery Royal Garrison Artillery Royal Engineers Grenadier Guards Coldstream Guards Scots Guards Irish Guards 'Highland Light Infantry Band Royal Highlanders Highland Light Infantry Seaforth Highlanders Cameron Highlanders Scottish Rifles King’s Royal Rifle Corps Royal Irish Rifles Rifle Brigade Northumberland Fusiliers Royal Fusiliers Royal Scots Fusiliers Royal Welsh Fusiliers Royal Irish Fusiliers Royal West Surry Regiment East Kent Regiment Somersetshire Light Infantry Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry Army Service Corps Royal Army Medical Corps 4th Battalion Norfolk Regiment Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry Vohmteer Battalion Devonshire Regiment Ist Middlesex Volunteer Rifle Corps